My Mute Bride

Chapter 222 A Dream About the Past

Somerset Mountain was a poor and remote mountainous area. Few people really lived on the mountain except for a gang of human traffickers, so Rachel hadn’t had any friends since she was little.

Then, she met Justin, who was abducted and trafficked to Somerset Mountain. The days since then had been one of the few times in her childhood that she felt truly happy in the company of someone around her age.

“My home is on fire, Justin! I have to go back!” “You mustn’t go back, Katie!” “You should leave first, Justin.”

“Katie!” In the burning courtyard, a man with a scar on the corner of his eye stood at the door of the house and threw the emptied can of kerosene aside. After looking around, he came out and stared at the burning fire as the flames spread out of the courtyard.

“My mom is still inside!”

“Keep quiet!”

The teenage boy covered little Rachel’s mouth, and he wouldn’t let go of her no matter how she cried and shouted. He kept waiting until the man with a scar on the corner of his eye left, whereas Rachel cried so hard that she nearly passed out.

However, the fire was too big. Before the two kids could run down the mountain slope, the thatched cottage collapsed in an instant, turning the courtyard into a sea of flames as the fire kept spreading toward the peak of the mountain.

“Run, Katie! Run!”

“Mommy! Mommy!”

When Rachel suddenly heard a child’s voice, she woke up from her nightmare in a daze and noticed the tiny figure standing beside her bed. Her eyelids felt so heavy that she could hardly open her eyes, and her voice was very weak. “Why are you here, Samuel?”

“Today’s the weekend. What’s wrong with you, Mommy?”

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“Okay.”

her ears, Rachel soon closed her eyes and fell

boy touched Rachel’s hot forehead with his tiny hand, he immediately went out and got some ice packs from the fridge. Then, he wrapped the ice packs in a towel and put them on Rachel’s forehead to help her cool down her body temperature. After doing all that, he stood beside the bed for a while, and his face scrunched up when he saw how uncomfortable Rachel looked. It’ll be

recognized every word in the magazine, he couldn’t concentrate on reading at all. Instead, he couldn’t stop himself from darting a look at the door from time to time as he read

then, the sound of the doorbell ringing

he was expecting when he opened the door. Instead, he saw a cute little boy standing behind the carved iron gate across the courtyard with a school bag shaped like a beetle on his back. The boy was pushing the gate with

Justin stepped out of the house.

the

and refused him entry. “I’m not letting you in. Tell

here to see you. Hurry up

“Go with you? Why?”

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child, yet you’re already lying without thinking. I just saw her yesterday. Not only was she as fit as a fiddle, she even plotted against an old fox with her friend. How dare you tell me right

the truth.

whether you’re telling the truth or lying. I’m busy. If she wants to see me, tell her to come here in person instead of using

you. Hurry up and come with me!” As Samuel

more impatient right now. Since he wasn’t careful with his

moaned in pain as he fell to

stern countenance soon afterward. “It’s your fault for insisting on pulling me. I’m telling you

fall, his big eyes—which looked like black grapes—instantly misted over with tears. With an aggrieved look, he then yelled at Justin, “You pushed me! My mom said that adults who hit kids are bad people. I hate you, and I don’t want you

regretful at first, but his expression changed the instant he heard Samuel’s words. “I’m not your dad in the

up from the ground and stood angrily outside the gate for a few seconds before he left in a fury. I don’t want to see Justin ever again, nor do I want this person to be my dad